Indeed. Global warming denialists are quite fond of cherry picking the data. (Cooling trend for a 15 yr period in one geographic region, ergo global warming disproved!)
Here's a graph of the global ave temps over the last 150 years: <http://www.met-office.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/obsdata/globaltemperature.html> James J. Roper, Ph.D. said the following on 2006-06-28 17:16: > So, from 1955 to 1970 was a 15 year cooling trend. I would bet that if > you put that in the last 150 year figure, it will be a minor blip.